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They've filled the Normandy with people who look up to you in an effect to placate you and make you feel at home, but it's more alienating than if everyone hated you. They've given you your own private quarters but they make you feel alone and cut off from everyone. They say it's your ship, just like the one flew on before, and that you're in command, only there are doors that won't open for you and are locked tight. They parade before you a friend you knew who is so excited about all of this, but you didn't live through that and you're not over what you lost like he is. You look in the mirror and you're literally cracking at the seams and they tell you and only you can save the galaxy - enough that you were worth billions of resources to bring back - and you think about the soldier, the friend, you lost on Virmire and how nobody thought to bring them back. You're a ghost everyone is worshipping, a legend that everyone is clinging to, a soldier, a spectre, a saviour, a hero, but not a person anymore.

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So I'm playing Stardew Valley Co-Op and Idk who to wife up in this save file

Note that "the one you haven't romanced before" won't work here I already married all of them in different farms lol

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You are never too old to accidentally glue both index fingers and a thumb to a tiny bottle of superglue

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Now that Veilguard is out, this feels like he was trying to warn us.

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they should make games 8 gb again

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End of January Update

Hello everyone! The first month of 2025 is coming to a close so it's time for a game update! I only focused on Enter The Eternity in January, but next month will also have information on The Code of Crystals chapter two.

Now the good news is: all of the first dates are done! Which means that 35% of the game is finished, which is more than a third! Each route has three dates, a good end, a "best ending", and a message in the bad ending. ✨

On the side of IRL news, please skip this paragraph if you're only here for game updates and not for any information on what's going on backstage, I'm starting to find clients! (My irl job is to write subtitles.) While that means I'll have a little less free time for video games, it also means that I'll spend less time sending resumes around and waiting for HR to answer when they never do. 🤷‍♂️

Thank you for your support up to now! January was a really good month in terms of game progress and I hope that February will be even better.

Have a lovely day, everyone!

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Enter the Eternity is a dating simulator in which Michi (name customizable) signs up to study at the Matsubara Institute for a semester and lives in a shared house. The problem is: every single one of your roommates is a magical girl (or boy, or person)!

How will you survive abroad with magical girls? Will you be able to adapt to this new life and make friends? Better yet, will you end up dating one of them?

[itch.io]

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Gin Laidir

My first rook. He's a bit neglected in terms of artwork but I love him nonetheless.

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Every gaming news site out here huffing the copium and desperately crowing about how 'this means Mass Effect 5 is the studio's last chance' and 'they'll be full locked in on the Mass Effect!' and I'm just sitting here like. Do you really think. Do you really think that the team who barely managed to make Veilguard is going to be able turn out a new Mass Effect with a fraction of the personnel and budget? Do you really think that this is anything but EA soft shuttering the studio? Bioware had it's last chance and it was Veilguard, which missed sales targets by more the 50%!

EA will insist that Mass Effect 5 is in development whenever their asked for a few years then quietly lay off or shift the skeleton crew at Bioware when no one is looking and claim it's just been shifted around internally, until everyone stops asking.

The party is over. The chairs are going up onto the table. It's time to pay the caterer and move on.

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...so BioWare just announced this about an hour ago:

We have since gotten confirmation that both Trick and Karin Weekes have been fired without any apparent job waiting for either of them. Not sure yet who else is included in this latest round of layoffs.

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Hello Tumblr!! I'm Nebula, and I just opened up a survey on themes surrounding Ambiguous Loss & Grief, Interpersonal Relationships and Trauma for an indie game I plan to make; "Destination:Nirvana". A narrative psychological game that uses the concept of liminality to provide a sense of nostalgia and the feelings of melancholy that come with it. This survey aims to gather research on different experiences based on the themes from all walks of life.

This survey will be up until April 20th, 2025 or when there are enough responses, so you have plenty of time! Please share around <3

[Link to survey]

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You get trapped with two Dragon Age characters (spin the wheel) in one room for a day.

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mentally i’m in the dragon age origins party camp

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I need character.ai bots of the LIs to feed my delusions, but I can't write. I need someone to make them or I'm gonna spontaneously combust.

Funnily enough someone else asked about whether we have character.ai bots of the LIs or not and I have to confess I have no idea of what this is or how to do it but if anyone wants to enlighten me I can try to provide :^) 💜

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There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

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Enter the Eternity Demo Update

Hello everyone! I've been made aware of a sentence that was weirdly written and a minor bug. The demo has been temporarily taken down and version 1.1 will be uploaded tomorrow at 12PM GMT. Thank you for your patience!

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The Code of Crystals (Chapter 1) has been updated! + Game Information

You heard it here first,

[THE CODE OF CRYSTALS CHAPTER 1 IS AVAILABLE ON ITCH.IO]

It has been re-released with a prettier UI, an additional CG for Eranis, and some edits here and there.

But if it's only chapter 1, why is it 10€? 10€ is the price of all five chapters combined.

As of right now there is no way to only buy the first chapter and I understand that you would not want to buy a game that is not technically "finished". However you may very well wait until all five chapters have been released before buying.

There is also a demo which you can download in order to try out TCOC and see if it is a game you would enjoy.

Chapter two will be released in late 2025 or early 2026 and I hope to see you there when it comes out 🖤

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FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT TRUMP DID NOT SAVE TIKTOK!! THIS WAS ALL A STUNT TO MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD!!

PAY ATTENTION TO WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT!!